netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: revert "add byte queue limit support".

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:11:21 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hayeswang@...ltek.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Alex Villacís Lasso 
	<a_villacis@...osanto.com>, Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: revert "add byte queue limit support".

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 07:38:11AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> :
> > On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 22:55 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> > > This reverts commit 036dafa28da1e2565a8529de2ae663c37b7a0060.
> [...]
> > bisection is not always the right way to qualify a problem.
> 
> I know. At some point I switch from "I could search more" to "users situation
> will improve in a definite timeframe".
> 
> > BQL in itself had some fixes coming _after_ commit 036dafa28da1e2565
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> They are in stable as of 3.4.5:
> 
> commit 4f4bdaeb40df95499c1ee7ea3fbca9d76174a59e
> Author:     Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@...il.com>
> AuthorDate: Wed May 30 12:25:37 2012 +0000
> Commit:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> CommitDate: Mon Jul 16 09:03:43 2012 -0700
> 
>     bql: Avoid possible inconsistent calculation.
>     
>     [ Upstream commit 914bec1011a25f65cdc94988a6f974bfb9a3c10d ]
> [...]
> commit 1414a53d956340ca8b1b27e05ab94ba63e82ed97
> Author:     Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@...il.com>
> AuthorDate: Wed May 30 12:25:19 2012 +0000
> Commit:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> CommitDate: Mon Jul 16 09:03:43 2012 -0700
> 
>     bql: Avoid unneeded limit decrement.
> 
> I have obviously not directed users at them and I do not see any
> of the victims using a non -stable / -vendor or recent enough
> kernel to test this patch since the issue has been reported.
> 
> They are both worth testing.

Fedora has 3.4.5 in the F16 updates-testing repo.  F17 is already on
3.4.6 in stable updates.  Users should be able to use those kernels for
testing.  F16 will be getting 3.4.6 submitted this morning for
updates-testing.

josh
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